Herb Alpert: Music for Your Eyes (2003) is an American documentary about the paintings and sculptures of musician and record producer Herb Alpert

Herb Alpert

Herbert "Herb" Alpert is an American musician most associated with the group variously known as Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass, Herb Alpert's Tijuana Brass, or TJB. He is also a recording industry executive — he is the "A" of A&M Records...

. It was written, produced and directed by Tom Neff. The soundtrack of the film is co-composed and performed by Alpert.

Synopsis

This documentary explores Herb Alpert's abstract paintings and his more figurative bronze sculptures, focusing on the first major retrospective of his work given at the Tennessee State Museum

Tennessee State Museum

Tennessee State Museum is a large museum in Nashville depicting the history of the U.S. state of Tennessee. Starting from pre-colonization and going all the way to the 20th century, the museum describes the American Civil War, the Frontier, and the Age of Jackson. The museum includes an area of...

. We see and hear how music has infused his paintings and sculptures through color, concept, and form.

The entire musical score to this visual film is composed and played by Herb Alpert, and his personality is probed through his artwork.

Interviews

• Herb Alpert
  Herb Alpert
  Herbert "Herb" Alpert is an American musician most associated with the group variously known as Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass, Herb Alpert's Tijuana Brass, or TJB. He is also a recording industry executive — he is the "A" of A&M Records...
  
  
• Lois Riggins-Ezzell, Executive Director, Tennessee State Museum in Nashville
  Nashville, Tennessee
  Nashville is the capital of the U.S. state of Tennessee and the county seat of Davidson County. It is located on the Cumberland River in Davidson County, in the north-central part of the state. The city is a center for the health care, publishing, banking and transportation industries, and is home...
  
  
• Phil Kreuger
• Peter Frank
• Lani Alpert Hall
  Lani Hall
  Lani Hall is an American singer and the wife of Herb Alpert.-Music career:Her first public appearances occurred in Old Town Chicago in early 1966. At one of those performances, she was heard by Brazilian Bossa Nova pianist/bandleader Sérgio Mendes, who happened to be on tour in Chicago...
  
  
• Kristan Marvell

Background

The film is based on the museum exhibition, "Herb Alpert: Music for Your Eyes." The exhibition, was on view at the museum in 2001 and features Herb Alpert's paintings and sculptures he created from 1978 to 2001.

External links

• Herb Alpert interview re "Music for Your Eyes" art catalog and show at NPR
  NPR
  NPR, formerly National Public Radio, is a privately and publicly funded non-profit membership media organization that serves as a national syndicator to a network of 900 public radio stations in the United States. NPR was created in 1970, following congressional passage of the Public Broadcasting...
  
  
• Herb Alpert: Music for Your Eyes film at You Tube